In an interview with French journal Paris Match, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev laughed when his interlocutor reminded him of Vladimir Putin’s September remarks about the 2012 elections and which one of them will run. “We shall come to an agreement,” Putin said back then, “because we are of one blood and common political views.”

Medvedev told the interviewer that, actually, it was true: they have the same blood type. “As we recently found out, Vladimir Putin was right about those blood types, in the medical sense of the term.”